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Worldwide. more than a dozen nations have grounded flights to affected areas. laura ingle has more from our newsroom. >> reporter: as you know, if you have a flight on british airways heading out of the u.k. they have posted news all flights to and from the united kingdom will be cancelled. check out this image released by nasa we can show you. massive cloud of ash that is hovering over most of europe is so big, you can see it from space. this cloud that is hugging huge portions of europe have c...

A lot of issues actually at what will happen then because of the problems with that ash cloud over poland. you mentioned the airspace, how the caskets would be brought down to krakow, southern poland, for the burial. that will take place tomorrow. the castle there, right now were hearing theres going to be a special military flight that is supposed to bring the caskets down there early tomorrow morning. that has special per in addition to fly down east of that area. so then the funerals, it will...

Let us know what you think. join the live chat at ac360.com. join viewers around america and the world. the ash cloud causing worldwide chaos. its unbelievable. thousands of flights canceled, airports shut down. a lot of travelers caught in limbo. an erupting volcano in iceland is the cause. gary tuchman is there. well talk to him coming up. hes on the ground. and how dangerous is that ash? well show you one passenger jets close call decades ago. first, the smoke filled the cabin, then cam...

On your door if you havent filled out the questionnaire. a third of american households didnt bother to do the civic duty and those are the fast five headlines. the ash cloud from the volcano continues to hover over europe. hundreds of thousands of air travelers are stranded with 15,000 flights canceled just today. tom costello has more. >> reporter: for modern jet aircraft, volcanic ash can turn a normal flight into a depth defying plunge. in happened in 1989 over alaska. flight 867 from amst...

For a minute you and say, really? is that safe? >> well, theyre not going to go up in a 747, theyre probably not even going to go up in a jet. a prop plane can survive a trip around an ash cloud a lot better than a jet can. with jets, this is the thing to stress, is that, you know, pulling that particle, those particles, through a jet engine, thats the really dangerous thing, so its just a commonsense precaution that you wouldnt put a planeful of passengers in harms way, but a group of trained s...

Nothing anyone can do. >> i just hope that they dont get angry with everyone and everyone accepts that this is an act of god and theres nothing we can do about it. we should just sit back and relax. >> from england to india, 17,000 flights are now cancelled and some of europes busiest hubs including airports in paris, london and amsterdam. why such extreme measures? the ash from that volcano in iceland can cause jet engines to shut down. geofizzisist say its impossible to predict how long the er...

This, i do a story before this every day, so ive been awake for several hours. >> good. sal we get to news? >> its time for a look at todays top stories. well start with this big story across the world. all of northern europe is practically a no-fly zone as a massive 30,000 foot cloud of ash from the erupted volcano in iceland continues to make flying conditions too dangerous. the cloud has caused the worst disruption in air travel since 9/11. tens of thousands of travelers on six continents are...

Correspondent, barbara starr. barbara? >> wolf, its a major air hub for the u.s. military, and they are coping like everybody else. several airfields shut down. now, as for the wounded, you know, wolf, routinely what has happened over the years, the wounded are flown by medevac flights. they come out of iraq and afghanistan. and when you look at the map, you see that routinely, they go back to ramstein air force base in germany, where they get treatment at nearby landstuhl. then are flown on her...

We have a cold front trying to slide to the east and nudge this big old ridge of weather. bringing rain across texas, that will be the case again today. little bit of light rain trying to get into bloomi ington and bk through detroit. new york through boston, look at that snow trying to fall out of the sky there and maybe a little rain across new york city. drastically different temperatures between new york and d.c., this is where the rain is. 58. thunderstorms as well. 85 degrees in washington...

Sorry for yourself. a little advice for the thousands of people looking to spend more nights at the airport. a nasa satellite photo shows the shear size of this ash cloud. even though its virtually invisible from the ground level, its still far too dangerous to planes to fly because the tiny particles of volcanic rock and glass can do serious damage to engines and air filters and sensors. taking no chances pulling covers over jet engines to protect them. with so many planes like these sitting id...